Record revealed
Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
Discover how plants travelled across the British Empire in the 19th century and the effect this has on our natural environment, and eating habits, today.
Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Passport Office: Case Papers
Catalogue reference: FO 737
What's it about?
FO 737
This series contains a small representative selection of Passport Office documents illustrating the treatment accorded to applications for various types of passports, visas, certificates, etc.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 737
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Passport Office: Case Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a small representative selection of Passport Office documents illustrating the treatment accorded to applications for various types of passports, visas, certificates, etc.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Passport Office, 1968-1984
- Foreign Office, Passport Office, 1855-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 130 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- These records are representative examples of documents destroyed under items 1-13 of the Passport Office Schedule 1947.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8038/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Passport Office: Case Papers
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